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Taunsa Sharif bombing

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Non-fatal injuries
  
13

Location
  
Pakistan

Attack type
  
Suicide attack

Date
  
14 October 2015

Total number of deaths
  
7

Location
  
Punjab, Pakistan

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Perpetrators
  
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ul-Ahrar

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The Taunsa Sharif bombing occurred on 14 October 2015 when a suicide bomb killed at least 7 people and injures 13 others in Taunsa Sharif a city in Punjab province inside the political office of Pakistan Muslim League MNA Sardar Amjad Farooq Khan Khosa, who was not present. Sardar Khosa, who was attending a meeting in Islamabad, said he did not receive any threat or alert prior to the blast. A Taliban splinter group, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, claimed responsibility for the attack.

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